to flounder
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6.6
- verb
- /ˈflaʊndər/
:
tener dificultades
- When faced with a difficult question, she began to flounder, unsure of how to respond.
- left to flounder
- floundering in school
- reform has floundered
But without them, you're going to end up floundering, right.
- But without them, you're going to end up floundering, right.
- But when they did, the prosecution floundered time and time again.
- Jim Rash is an amazing improviser and can save a floundering scene.
- You either make this book work or you're just going to be, you know, floundering the rest of your life, right?
- While Keith flounders, America's sweethearts Zach and Jared race ahead.
- When her fledgling acting career floundered, her dad said what have you and Pope John Paul the Second got in common.
- And a lot of people who had actually gone all in were like, holy crap, my business is, is, you know, floundering.
- Whether there was a skill gap and you need to bring your skills up to speed so that you're not floundering your next job.
- You know that we know how the money split to the to the families and you don't have to worry about floundering, right.
Examples
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Two years earlier, he had purchased a floundering journal, The Christian Century, and "re-founded it."
Academic text (2014) -
If an assessment tells them that students are floundering, teachers can adjust instruction to address the problem.
Academic text (2009) -
And now when the greatest opportunity of a lifetime comes along, you flounder like a fish out of water.
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But Jane and Joe feel turned off, shut out, and left to flounder in the dark.
Academic text (1996) -
Seemed to flounder around, unsure of herself.
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But we are still floundering as we look for a new school library model.
Academic text (2011) -
I'm floundering in a sea of confusion and total despair.
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Sitting up, he could see the men floundering helplessly in the pond.
Fiction book (1996) -
Instead, he spent most of the decade floundering to establish himself as a top-rank concert artist.
Academic text (2011) -
In that fractured country, the "international community" constantly flounders about since basic political cohesion does not exist.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
170
3.0
To move or climb with great difficulty, often using your hands
49
4.0
Walk in an unsteady way as if about to fall
16
4.6
To move in an unsteady way as if about to fall
4
5.6
To move or lean in a way that looks like it might fall
Antonyms
Compounds
A flat fish that lives near southern United States coasts and changes color to match the sea floor
A flat fish from cold north Atlantic waters that people eat and often catch in winter
How Struggling
Surface Forms
Etymology
Flounder (verb) grew from that picture of the fish 'flopping' and struggling on the sand, so people used it for anyone who moves or acts clumsily; that's why to flounder now means to move or struggle with difficulty.